The production, however, was stopped in the large Volkswagen factory near Lisbon,

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Trains and subways stopped, closed administrations, airline disturbed: Portugal knew Thursday its fourth general strike in two years, called by unions against the austerity measures demanded by the country's creditors in financial assistance.
The strike launched by the two main unions, the CGTP, close to the Communist Party and the UGT, historically more moderate, was to be punctuated by protests across the country in the afternoon.
"The membership is very strong and well beyond our expectations," said late morning the head of the UGT, Carlos Silva, while that of the CGTP, Armenio Carlos, which calls for early parliamentary, hoped the day a "participation" to "further weaken the government."
The strike is the second Thursday jointly organized by the two unions since the November 2011, five months after the coming to power of center-right government. The CGTP had summoned only the March and November 2012.
But the hope of the two plants to extend the movement to the private sector, weakly unionized, seemed disappointed. "The figures for the private sector does not reach those of the public administration" guelph library has admitted Carlos Silva. "But it is a clear signal to the government that the path he has chosen is not good," guelph library said he added.
The production, however, was stopped in the large Volkswagen factory near Lisbon, "Auto Europa", while according to the CGTP, the activity of the central main group of electrician EDP was paralyzed 70% in Sines, 160 km south Lisbon.
Health services were also affected and the Sao Jose Hospital, one of the largest of Lisbon, only elective surgeries were performed, reported private television Sic.
The capital, where a demonstration was expected to 1330 GMT, lived in slow motion. "I agree we manifest our indignation. But if I stayed home I nuirais my boss when everything is the fault of the government, "Sergio felt a lathe and milling for 35 years waiting for one of the few buses running even in the context of a minimum service.
"I do not agree with the strike because it only hinder those who want to work and the country loses a lot of money," thought however Luisa Magalhaes, 35, an accountant guelph library in the private sector.
While recognizing the "inalienable right" guelph library to strike, Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, a staunch supporter of austerity, not less noted, the previous Parliament, that "the country needs fewer strikes and more work "during an intervention disrupted by protesters.
The general strike is taking place under the gaze of the "troika" EU-ECB-IMF representative donors of Portugal, who on Monday began a mission to Lisbon to prepare the next quarterly assessment to begin on July 15.
Mr. Passos Coelho still enjoys the support of creditors who, recognizing his efforts to redress the country's finances, he gave up in 2015 to bring the deficit below 3% of GDP ceiling set by Brussels .
The Prime Minister, however, did not rule out applying for a new reduction targets that would be the third since the beginning of the implementation of the financial rescue plan 78 billion granted in May 2011 by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund .
The austerity policy has increased more than expected recession and unemployment according to official forecasts, the economy, down